[hdgvhicv]

Make all DCs provide their own power and suddenly they’d be large amounts of solar and battery in cheap scrubland

A typical US DC costs about $35b per GW. Solar and battery would increase that to about $45b.

Then during summer it would generate so much excess power that it would run all the domestic air conditioning you could need.

[jauntywundrkind]

Alas I fear we are going to rapidly build a bunch of very hard to maintain and clean up inefficient small nuclear power systems, to power a lot of this. Not next year, no, but soon.

[Muromec]

I'm actually fine with only having access to the AI shaitan when the sun is shining over the datacenter.

[hdgvhicv]

That triples the cost of the data centre per unit of compute.

[Muromec]

that could still be cheaper than actually sucking CO2 out of the air --- or not, let the market do it's thing

[hdgvhicv]

A self sufficney solar, battery, data centre is about 70% cost on the data centre and 10% on the battery.

[Muromec]

Okay and not exploding makes РБМК reactor 70% more expensive (maybe), but we kinda want it to not explode, I guess?

I understand that singling out datacenters specifically isn't really fair, but if they start accounting for 25% of the grid, then I have to pay for everybody's dancing JD Vance gifs even I don't look at them, at which point the line between communism and free market gets a bit blurry to me.